Safeguarding Awareness Week 2026
Safeguarding Awareness Week 2026, brings together educators, safeguarding professionals and school leaders from across the UK and around the world to help define what proactive safeguarding looks like in practice.
This year’s focus is on moving beyond compliance towards culture; building systems, confidence and shared responsibility that help schools act early, consistently and effectively.
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New research and frameworks
- Safeguarding Confidence Index
- Safeguarding Culture Maturity Model
- 2026 safeguarding trends analysis
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Practical support for schools
- Proactive safeguarding toolkits
- Behaviour, misogyny and online harms guidance
- Case studies from schools demonstrating best practice
- Leadership and DSL wellbeing insights
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2025 - Empowering and protecting students in a digital world
In 2025, we focused on Empowering and protecting students in a digital world, exploring the latest challenges in online safety and digital safeguarding in schools.
Although the week has ended, you can still access a wide range of resources and catch up on all our expert-led events, practical tools and insights.
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2024 - Everyone has a right to feel safe
In 2024, our campaign emphasised that everyone has the right to feel safe. We focused on providing schools with guidance and support to make their environments as safe as possible. As part of this effort, we heard from industry experts, shared insights from the sector, and highlighted outstanding safeguarding practices both in the UK and internationally.
You can download our 2024 safeguarding survey, watch a panel discussion with three safeguarding experts, access free resources, and explore our informative blogs.
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2023 - SPEAK, SHOUT, SHARE
Encouraging children and young people to talk to a trusted adult in school is an essential part of a good safeguarding strategy. But how can you ensure your students know who to speak to and feel confident in doing so? And how do you make sure your colleagues know what to do when a child does confide in them?
Watch our free Live Lesson with NSPCC, download our classroom resources, explore our useful blogs and more, to help keep everybody in your school safe.
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2022 - Everyone has a right to feel safe
Following reports in the rise of sexual harassment in schools, our first safeguarding awareness week examined what it means to feel safe and what schools can do to protect all their students.
See how we raised awareness during the week, watch recordings of our free webinars with leading experts, view the results of our safeguarding week survey, download our classroom activity sheet, access resources from our safeguarding experts, and more, by visiting our Safeguarding Awareness Week 2022 page.
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